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After months of wait, the government of India finally launched its .bharat domain. Keeping in sync with the new government's strong fondness of “Indianness”, the domain was launched in not English, but devanagari script covering eight Indian languages including Hindi, Konkani and Marathi.

With this, individuals looking for a domain name for their website will be able to book the name in Hindi script. Not just that. The names would have ‘.bharat’ in Hindi script as its extension instead of .com, .net or .in.

“This initiative should not stop at eight languages. I asked the department to make .Bharat domain name available in all the Indian languages very soon,” communications and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) will soon also launch the Internationalised Domain Name (IDN) in other Indian languages like Bangla, Urdu, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury